Free interactive bird flu map, it tracks bird flu and reports on the latest happening. The map also gives you past instances of avian influenza viruses H7N7, H9N2, H10N7 and of course H5 types that have struck humans before.

Bird flu virus : Bird flu virus has been in the news quite lately and lot of coverage has been allocated to it in newspapers and TV channels, but few know that this is the third biggest wave of virus infection, this wave started in 1997 and has been in a killing spree, it has killed 120 million birds till date This is not just a figure, in Asia this would mean the owner of poultry farms face sudden poverty and distress that does not last for days but for months, as people shun eating chicken. In last scare, about two years ago, in India about $400 million losses were thrust on the poultry and egg sellers and for a developing country it was a nightmarish burden.

Evolution of the killer : The virus has been slowly and steadily evolving keeping in step with process of evolution that every species undergoes. As various strains mix together in the backyard poultry, wild birds and pigs, a new strain comes into being. There is practically no vaccine for us against H5N1, and right now it is our good luck that is saving us from a pandemic, because present strain of H5N1 is only 0.18% different from big killer of 1918 that killed 40 million people. It has a 100% kill rate in birds and 60% of humans infected till today have died. So this is definitely a killer virus.

Antivirals : There is a big noise about antivirals being able to cure and save us from influenza, the problem is that it is difficult to differentiate between avian influenza and other viral infections, the symptoms need to identified well within 48 hours of infection,for the antiviral to be effective, it is not a easy task, even after a dose is taken the process of infection gets slowed down but is not eradicated. It may still kill its victim. The worst scenario will be when virus develops an immunity to the antivirals as it has done in case of amantidine.

Survive it :It is a juggernaut and very few have survived it . The best way to survive this virus is to avoid it, but avoidance needs understanding it first, it is invisible to begin with, so we need to identify its sources and transmission mechanism , we need to know what it is and how it infects us and our pets and poultry. We, at Goalfinder have endeavored to educate through our movies , the films that we have developed are a result of our efforts towards presenting "correct information", in a simple and entertaining manner. The films have received wide appreciation.

About the map : The most onerous task on the web today is to get hold of structured information on bird flu. While creating bird flu films, we frequently came across this stumbling block, there was either plethora of information available or meager data on avian influenza. None was structured and to the point, it would take a lot of research to get to the

• Correct sequence of occurrence,
• Identify the correct virus and
• The place the outbreak happened
• Which bird was killed
• the reason for outbreak

We have collated the information in "bird flu tracker" in three manner

1. Incidence of human infection due to all types of Avian influenza, we have covered events since 1990s
2. Incidence of bird and human infection due to H5N1, compared together
3. Events of bird infection due to H5N1

We hope it would serve the purpose of infroming people about virus

Six powerful animations explaining everything about bird flu

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•  Bird Flu Educational Movie -The Seminar
•  Bird Flu Flash Movie- The virus-Part 1
•  Bird Flu Movie- The virus-Part 2
•  Movie Protecting poultry and pet birds from bird flu
•  Posters - Protect poultry from bird flu
•  Surviving Bird Flu Comic Style